Bangor Daily News publishes the following
genteel headline:
Take this job and shove it: Fed-up Bangor
TV anchors quit on air
"Citing a longstanding
battle with upper management over journalistic practices at
their Bangor TV stations, news co-anchors Cindy Michaels and
Tony Consiglio announced their resignations at the end of
Tuesday’s 6 p.m. newscast. ... “I just wanted to know that I
was doing the best job I could and was being honest and
ethical as a journalist, and I thought there were times when I
wasn’t able to do that,” said Consiglio, a northeastern
Connecticut native who broke in with WVII as a sports reporter
in April 2006. ... [S]he explained, “It’s a little
complicated, but we were expected to do somewhat unbalanced
news, politically, in general." Neither Michaels nor Consiglio
would say what specific political leaning they were expected
to adopt. Consiglio, who also was executive producer, said the
balanced journalistic approach they use for all their stories
was sometimes frowned upon."
So two veteran and apparently ethical journalists resigned
because being ethical and balanced and unbiased was allegedly
not the preferred approach to news.